Jeremy Bentham

Usury’s Connection to Sodomy

Sex, Economics, and AusterityBy Jeet Heer The American Prospect http://prospect.org/article/sex-economics-and-austerityMay 7, 2013 [Excerpt]...Historically, attempts to prohibit sodomy (defined broadly as non-procreative sex) have had an economic dimension as well as a moral one. Economics, for the ancient Greeks, was household management (oikonomia being the Greek counterpart to our word husbandry).